Immersive Audio & Dramatic Audiobook Production
We’ve been producing Immersive Audiobooks longer than anyone: since about 2001. From adaptation, casting, multicast recording, direction, SFX and Music. We’ve done it all.
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Audioplay Adaptation for Immersive Audiobooks
Immersive audio begins with audioplay adaptation—the process of transforming a book or other source material into a scripted dramatic audio experience designed for full-cast performance, sound design, and music.
Unlike traditional audiobooks, audioplay adaptation reshapes the material so it plays cinematically in sound. Descriptive exposition is reduced or removed wherever dialogue, performance, and sound can carry the story more naturally. Actions, environments, and emotional beats are expressed through sound effects and music rather than narration.
The result is a performance-ready dramatic script, similar to a screenplay for audio, complete with character breakdowns, dialogue attributions, essential sound cues, and directing context. This script becomes the creative blueprint for casting, directing, recording, and post-production—ensuring every immersive audio project is built on a clear, intentional foundation.
Casting Strategy
Every project begins with a careful evaluation of characters and cast size. Main characters are always distinct, while minor roles may be doubled strategically to preserve clarity and manage budget. We cast widely—often beyond traditional audiobook narrators—to include film, television, stage, and voice actors who excel at naturalistic, scene-based performance. When a dedicated narrator is required, we typically engage top audiobook narrators for that role.
Recording
Whether we’re recording in our New York, Atlanta or Mexico Studios, in our worldwide partner studios or in our specially approved home-studios for select actors, capturing a great performance that sounds fantastic is our specialty.
Whenever possible, actors who share major scenes record together to maximize chemistry and realism. When schedules or logistics require separate recording, we use a film-style approach: actors hear their scene partners’ performances in session, allowing them to match timing, energy, and emotional escalation naturally.
Directing
In-session directing is critical to immersive audio. Directors actively shape performances based on environment, emotional context, and interaction between characters. Whether a scene takes place in a quiet bedroom or a noisy subway, performances are guided to feel believable and consistent, helping listeners fully suspend disbelief.
Dialogue Editing
Multicast dialogue editing goes beyond traditional audiobook editing. Editors shape pacing, rhythm, and conversational flow so scenes feel natural and cinematic, while leaving space for sound effects and music. Dialogue is carefully balanced so all performances feel unified and exist in the same sonic world.
Sound Effects & Sound Design
We design sound effects using extensive premium libraries and deep practical experience. Designers select, layer, and mix effects to create realistic environments and actions—often building composite sounds rather than relying on single effects. The goal is specificity and realism without distracting from performance or story.
Music & Scoring
Music is treated as a storytelling tool, not background filler. Our designers are musicians and composers who elevate library music through editing, layering, and customization, sometimes augmenting cues with additional instrumentation. When budgets allow, we also provide fully original scores created by composers across a wide range of experience levels.
Producer Oversight
A dedicated producer oversees the project from start to finish, ensuring creative continuity, protecting the publisher’s and author’s vision, managing budget and scope, and coordinating client communication. The producer serves as the final internal checkpoint to ensure everything sounds cohesive and polished.
Final Audio Mix & Review
Final mixes can be completed with the client attending in person at our New York or Atlanta studios, or remotely for review and approval. Stereo delivery is standard, with options for surround and Dolby Atmos mixes via an experienced partner studio. Review and revision workflows are tailored to publisher preference.
Dolby Atmos and Surround Mixing
We offer full Dolby Atmos and Surround Mixing using partner studios in Atlanta Georgia with experience in Film and TV.
Quality Control
All projects undergo rigorous quality control to ensure word-for-word accuracy, correct and consistent pronunciations, appropriate pacing, balanced levels, and overall polish. JMM’s experienced QC Engineers are augmented by AI tools to meet the same high standards expected of top-tier audiobook productions.